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jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:06 am Paddy Lowe leaving Williams with immediate effect, wonder if that means Williams slipping further back?

I wonder what kind of non disclosure agreement he has, waiting to see if he slags them off as useless and not listening to him

duncs500 wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:14 pm

jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:06 am Paddy Lowe leaving Williams with immediate effect, wonder if that means Williams slipping further back?

I wonder what kind of non disclosure agreement he has, waiting to see if he slags them off as useless and not listening to him

Hasn't Paddy Lowe been out of the team since before the start of the season? This is just official severing of ties.

jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:22 pm

duncs500 wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:14 pm

jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:06 am Paddy Lowe leaving Williams with immediate effect, wonder if that means Williams slipping further back?

I wonder what kind of non disclosure agreement he has, waiting to see if he slags them off as useless and not listening to him

Hasn't Paddy Lowe been out of the team since before the start of the season? This is just official severing of ties.

He has, but it’s not to say he hasn’t been consulted On in an informal capacity, as he was still an employee- now he’s officially separated, it might make some difference. Also now no longer employed by Williams is he now free to comment on them in the media?

jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 5:22 pm

duncs500 wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:14 pm

jamcg wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:06 am Paddy Lowe leaving Williams with immediate effect, wonder if that means Williams slipping further back?

I wonder what kind of non disclosure agreement he has, waiting to see if he slags them off as useless and not listening to him

Hasn't Paddy Lowe been out of the team since before the start of the season? This is just official severing of ties.

He has, but it’s not to say he hasn’t been consulted On in an informal capacity, as he was still an employee- now he’s officially separated, it might make some difference. Also now no longer employed by Williams is he now free to comment on them in the media?

Alex_ wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:16 am And well done 6-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

DaveE wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:44 pm

Alex_ wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:16 am And well done 6-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

It's looking that way isn't it...

Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:24 am I do wonder whether we will see Alonso back next year. He is not a man who is prone to mistakes and I wonder how close the fight might have been last year with Alonso in the Ferrari v Hamilton in the Merc! When Alonso was in the Italian team, they made a few errors but he didn't from memory.

I suspect it won't happen but he did a second stint with McLaren so who knows.

PaulJ wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:28 pm

Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:24 am I do wonder whether we will see Alonso back next year. He is not a man who is prone to mistakes and I wonder how close the fight might have been last year with Alonso in the Ferrari v Hamilton in the Merc! When Alonso was in the Italian team, they made a few errors but he didn't from memory.

I suspect it won't happen but he did a second stint with McLaren so who knows.

Won't he be trying to engineer himself into the right car to complete the hat trick of FI champ, Indy and Le Mans winner. From memory that would be a unique set of gongs.

Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:54 pm

PaulJ wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:28 pm

Gavin wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:24 am I do wonder whether we will see Alonso back next year. He is not a man who is prone to mistakes and I wonder how close the fight might have been last year with Alonso in the Ferrari v Hamilton in the Merc! When Alonso was in the Italian team, they made a few errors but he didn't from memory.

I suspect it won't happen but he did a second stint with McLaren so who knows.

Won't he be trying to engineer himself into the right car to complete the hat trick of FI champ, Indy and Le Mans winner. From memory that would be a unique set of gongs.

Would be in the modern era Graham Hill did it) but after not qualifying this year I wonder f he is going to look again at what he wants. He may well end up doing a full season of Indycar if he can get into a decent team though.

integrale_evo wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:14 pm Alonso to Williams next year then

NotoriousREV wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:20 pm

integrale_evo wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 7:14 pm Alonso to Williams next year then

No, his MO is to leave a team just as they come good and join a team just as they turn shit.

Mito Man wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:25 pm Not sure how much a budget cap would help, Ferrari and Red Bull are on a similar budget to Mercedes and clearly aren’t using that money as efficiently. Too much pizza and red bull stopping their brains working.